In
all of the Universe and possible and probable and likely imagined and
unimaginable existence, the Gods were unlike any others and they made a lot of
stuff taking great care in their designs to the point of a kind of
fastidiousness that might be annoying amongst mere mortals but for Gods it was
rather secondary to their nature and they had a lot of patience being perfect
beings like they were. The Gods had many unique designs among them and some
even ventured to say that every design of each living creature both plant and
animal and even human and non-human, even from living to non-living, was unique
just like the snowflakes they were so fond of. Sure, there were similarities
and in some instances the same raw materials would be found in any amount of
any given samples of this and that but the arrangement of those materials and
subsequent emergent properties all presented uniqueness upon uniqueness in quite
stunning fashion; although, most Gods were pretty careful not to let it go to
their heads (and were privately displeased when some Gods did let it go to
their heads but they were too perfectly polite to ever confront such issues of
such little consequence which were assuredly of little consequence because, uniquely
amidst all the entirety of all existence, the Gods were quite perfectly
self-critical and were very efficient in self-chastisement, with special care
not to be shameful, which they found a rather ugly phenomena, so that they
might self-correct and not be prideful so that they could eventually continue on
in their perfection.) But the Universe was a funny thing and in its totality
saw fit to include an occasional weakness amongst perfection so that perfect
might be truly perfect rather than perfectly boring and thus the Universe
limited the Gods in their ability to discern the future and as a compliment to
this weakness the Universe introduced variability from the very beginning of
its self-existence and was thereby eternally entertained in its observations of all the on goings that could possibly ever happen. And it was because of the
Gods’ inability to accurately perceive the future in a predictive manner and
because they did not know of the details of the randomness that the Universe introduced
that the Gods were constantly trying to match their unique creations to the
ideal circumstances so that their creations might achieve what they conceived of
as perfection in both their creations and the context of their creations
according to the Gods’ own perceptions. When they matched creations to
circumstances well, wonderful things would happen and would often be replicated,
which is one of the reasons why so many planets and solar systems were
eventually created and continued to be created, they had such fun with those
things and marveled at all the different colors of the planets. Other things
were replicated often such as clouds and the aforementioned snowflakes as well
as geological patterns. Nebulas were a favorite past time among many and so
were black holes, although, they were often lost. Occasional accidents occurred
such as errant meteorites crashing into planets but that also kept things
interesting to the Gods, which is exactly why the Universe introduced
randomness. Amongst all of the designs they created, the designs of life were
the most fickle and temporary and amongst the designs of life, humans were even
more difficult to match to ideal circumstances. Many Gods were confounded by
humans’ seemingly unpredictable responses to what the humans encountered during
their existence. Some of their responses were surprisingly amazing such as the pyramids
and they were even more so amazed by the depths of compassion that the humans
would occasionally display. But disappointingly, the humans caused a lot of
problems and in turn created a lot of stupid things as well such as bottled
water. But generally, the Gods marveled at how the humans employed the unique
features that the Gods installed within them which led the Gods to continue to
develop the uniqueness of their human designs. They just couldn’t figure out
why some of the unique features were used in such unintended ways so as to yield
amazingness or horribleness and more and more that some of the most unique
designs among the humans were unrecognized and lost to obscurity. Try as they
might to match such unique humans to the ideal circumstances where such uniqueness
could be employed to miraculous effect, other humans would just screw it all up
causing the Gods creations to languish and eventually perish having never been
realized to the fullest potential, which potential even the Gods were not sure
of but of which they hoped to learn. Thus is was that many of the unique
features they built into the humans were wasted by a lack of available
circumstances that would showcase such special features. Still, the Gods tried
and tried and unknowingly struggled against the weakness the Universe gave them
(unknowingly because they didn’t realize the Universe could have made them
fully omniscient knowing the beginning from the end but simply chose not to on
a whim one day) and the Universe observed and observed taking notice of the
evolutionary trajectory of the Gods as they continued to try and learn how best
to match their creations to circumstances. The Gods lamented wasted
opportunities, especially those they saw amongst their human designs but they also
triumphed at human successes and even surprises, which gave them the passion to
keep on trying and was the motivation that ultimately propelled the Gods to
learn more and more of the science of matching their creations to
circumstances, but on the balance the Gods felt that humans mostly lost their
opportunities and achieved such a small fraction of their fullest potential,
which if they were to achieve, the Gods knew, would be most glorious. As a
result, the Gods agreed to only experiment with human designs on one sole
planet until they understood better how to effectively match the humans to
circumstances that would allow them to fully develop their potential.
Meanwhile, the Universe chuckled because only it realized what the cause of the
Gods befuddlement was regarding the humans, which was the randomness it had
introduced into all of creation, which randomness the Universe was interested
to see caused unintended consequences that not even it would have predicted. But
that was what was most interesting to the Universe even if it was to some
degree at the Gods’ expense, but the Universe, being as omniscient as it was,
knew that the Gods had a pretty good sense of humor.